>>>>> On Sat, 22 Sep 2012, Michał Górny wrote: > A package name can't end up with something looking like version.
> Thus, if upstream names package: > frobnicator-11 > We need to rename it in the tree, effectively losing the ability to > follow upstream naming and introducing a bunch of unnecessary MY_P, > S variables. You need to be more precise here. Package names like "foo-1a" or "foo-2_alpha" are perfectly legal, see the discussion in bug 174536. What is currently not allowed are package names ending with a hyphen followed by digits only (as in your above example). This seems to be completely arbitrary, and we could remove this limitation, even with existing dependency syntax. Ulrich
